Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-12
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DON'T COUNT THE CHICKENS.
Onr renders know Of scme of or efforts in
behalf Of prohibition in the fight just closing In
the Lone Stsr state. We have done the best
we coull to Dnrg on the victory. Whether the
eight Is lost or won, we do not feel that an
ounce of the force thus eNertcd has been lost.
The conservation Of force IS as true theory In
the realm of moral as of physical forces. But,
lost or won, the dine Is rapidly coming, IT, in
deed 4 mas not already arrived, When victory
over the saloon Will bea thing impossible, eN-
cept through i determined, compact, we'll
drilled, permanent party organization.
The liquor traffic Is in renched behind law
and capital. a. custom and appetite. 1t needs
to fight only on the defensive TO keep what It
has To conquer such a power needs an army,
/ and an army that has enlisted, not merely for
one spirited battle, but for the war. Prohibi-
tionists of Texas, viii you enlist in that army
Its nan e IS the National Prohibition party
New York Voice.
However the election goes, 1t is certain to
affect fG IRE political conditions in TeXas. The
Democrats have f0reeeen this result and have
endcavored during the last few weeks CT cam
pGign 10 make the fight distinct enc between
the Republican and Democratic parties. They
have preached from the stump and in the news
papers that the real object of the movement
was not DGOllDlJlOD. DLI Int utlcdI Vi Inc l'E-
mocraCy and the division Of the solid south.
1t is probable that they have Influenced some
Democrats to vote against the amendment by
these arguments. But the days when Texas
could be depended upon TO roll up l0O,GC0 ma
ior!ty are doubtless passed. The people have
been thoroughly aroused by the campaign just
closed and given another Issue than the race
question to divide upon, and the outcome Will
be beneficial to all Sides Philadelphia Press.
Enemies of Democracy outside OF
Texas have had as erroneous conceptions
CT tie recent canvass in this state es
many men inside the state nave had.
This prohibition canvass will not cost
the Democracy single Democratic vote
unless the Democracy Of Texas, itself,
deliberately chooses to disintegrate
itself. The Democrats Of Texas who
voted for prohibition in Texas, and 50
per cent. OF that vote was Democratic,
did so because they regarded the ques-
ton IS mere police regulation and be-
cause they had the warrant OF
the state platform for so re-
ssTding it. They were Democrats
and they sre Democrats, and the
chance Of inteTneCine war Ia the party
does not rest upon any vote cast in the
late election, but upon the future action
of those Democrats who, during the late
canvass, assumed TO set up an inner
sanctum of Democracy. The blind prophe.
cies Of Radical organs and the weak ap
peaIs of prohibition organs per sc
will affect nothing with Demo
Gratis in Texas; but ii the spirit
evident in these two extracts fac
utterance hereafter in action, the respon
! sibility for Democratic strife Will rest or
the men who provoke it:
Those Democrats who sought to surrende
/ the Keys of the Democratic citadel to the enc
my may. in the general Joy over their hunt
latinC defeat, be pardoned to the extent o
allowing them to remain in the party while
standing submissively around and voting tht
/ Democratic ticket; but true Democracy here
after will put none but true Democrats OF
guard This is oficial.-TSan Antonio Express
/ If people want TO be Democrats they must bt
/. Democrats; If they want to be Prohibitionist
/ let them be Prohibltlonists They cannot b.
both, or pretend to be both, hereafter In I, Nae
= Waco Examiner,
The election last Thursday settled stst'
prohibition in Texas for years, and it vii
remain settled unless the spirit Of thes
Texas papers finds voice. The 1900
votes cast for Dohoney in 1856 canno
thrust this question on the people sgaip
and the tens of thousands Of Democrat
who voted for prohibition end who sr
Democrats, and also Prohibitionists, wi
not seek to do SO. If Democrat
dissepsion ever arise over this questio
, it will come from men who have SON
, purpose other than the harmonization G
the Democratic party of Texas, and TT
GAZETTE does not believe that the gree
body Of the party will lend itself to effort
: for its own enteeblement.
No, Mr.. Voice, Texas Democratic Pro
, hibitionists will not enlist in the Nations
Prohibition party, ard Cleveland will bes
/ Blaine 10000 votes next year in TexG
. on stste platform that reiterates the &,
: claration st Galveston in 1886.
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